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huffhuff



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The Grand Tour - thoughts?
Just finished watching The Grand Tour. If you liked Top Gear but don't have Amazon Prime, they are doing a special discount and it is WELL worth the money i'd say (and you get all the other Prime benefits)

Even the opening 2 minutes got my smiling!

I fully appreciate old Clarkson isn't to everybody's taste... but that aside, I enjoyed it. TD5 Defender 90
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Riverboy



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Thumbs Up Brilliant. So glad to have the boys back. Very Happy
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they've not lost it ... brilliant especially in 4K Thumbs Up
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Just watched it. Pretty good in my opinion, especially after the rubbish attempt to revive Top Gear with Evans and co. I'll be watching next week.
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Excellent, the lads are back and better than ever Thumbs Up

No way can the BBC with Top Gear and that American bloke presenting compete with what I watched last night, or should I say early this morning. For those who like Welsh Mountains and narrow boats have a look at my videos and photos at..

http://www.youtube.com/user/conwy1
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davew



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I forgot it was on !

Will have to watch it tonight. http://www.yorkshireoffroadclub.net/
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Watched it now, on the whole I enjoyed it. I think it's a promising start, a little less arty with the filming than the BBC version (not a bad thing IMV) and they seem a bit less constrained somehow. The only criticism I'd have is that a couple of the "studio" bits could have been a bit shorter, they started off funny but went on a bit too long.

Anyway, all the important stuff is there and it's free so, why not Smile Looking forward to seeing how it progresses over the whole series. http://www.yorkshireoffroadclub.net/
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It's about a hundred times better than the new top gear so I'm in. Ray
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JWL



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I sat down with boy 2 WL to watch the GT tonight and whilst supercar thingys don't do a lot for me I found the show quite watchable. But I do have to agree with one of the above comments about some of the Tent parts were a bit too long and tedious.
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Leviathan



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Excellent, loved it.

Very funny moments and some great pictures.

Matt Le Blanc must be feeling sick Shocked about series 2 of Top Gear
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JWL



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I did enjoy the subltle sarcastic remarks to TG such as The Star in the Reasonably Priced Car reference Whistle
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I thought the opening sequence was very cleverly done. I was pleased to see that the production quality remains high, and overall thought it was good. It will probably improve as it settles down.

There must be some very fed up BBC execs at the moment, compared to this the Beeb's effort is way short of pathetic. Rolling with laughter
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bpman



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Question is ... where is the new track ? I think it's wroughton nr Swindon ... anyone know ?
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Just shows you how much the BBC were impacting top gear.

In about 5 seconds it was better than anything with CE and as good as the early days of Top Gear...good show.

Its exRAF Wroughton for the new track apparently

Not sure about the stigs american cousin though Rolling with laughter Mike
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Very good show.

We seen it in family on thursday nigth (my boys are fans of the old Top Gear) and was a good re-encounter.
Good quality!

Cheers! Eduardo

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